kmeminfo -V shows errors.

[Guy Zelck_1]

Hi Community,

Related to my previous message 'Less memory available than installed' I used the kmeminfo cmd to check memora use. By chance I tried the -V (verbose) option which shows me the following errors :
atcoaicd:/usr/contrib# kmeminfo -V
kmeminfo (3.11)
libp4 (5.17): Opening /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem

Loading symbols from /stand/vmunix

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Date: Mon Oct 14 09:29:56 2002

Processing pfdat table (496474 entries)...
Error: 0 sysmap pages but only 2 sysmap_32bit pages and 49637 sysmap_64bit pages
Error: found 131072 system pages but there is only 180711 P_SYS pages!!
Error: freemem is 254468 but there is only 249515 P_FREE pfdat entries!!

How serious or not is this. What does it mean?

Thanks for your insights,
Guy.

[Stefan Farrelly]

I just ran this command on a few of my servers and got the same error on all of them (freemem didnt match P_FREE) - it seems to be a 'feature' of the Q4 routine kmeminfo. I wouldnt worry about it.

[Dietmar Konermann]

Hi, Guy!

Don't worry about these errors... some functions of kmeminfo have problems processing data on live systems. They are simply designed to be used on crash dumps. Especially by using the -V option you make kmeminfo disclose all conditions that are usually suppressed.

Regards...
Dietmar.

[Dietmar Konermann]

BTW, this kmeminfo is not q4's kmeminfo.pl! It is a standalone binary using libp4... which is a LOT faster than any q4 perl script.